by Jessie Seigel, AIW Board Member
On this day, when we in the D.C. area are having our second heavy snow storm in a week (the first having deposited upwards of thirty inches of snow in places), and I look out my window at the tree branches weighed down by a foot of the white stuff [...]
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Musings on a Snowbound Day
A Taste of Hiberno-English
by Jessie Seigel, AIW Board Member
If I had ten lives, one of them would be lived as a linguist.
Language, phonetics, and the structure of the ways in which people speak their own languages and of how they carry that into English fascinate me. Modern Irish (what the Irish call Irish and others sometimes call [...]
Write What You Know? Hell, no! Know What You Write!
by Jessie Seigel, AIW Board Member
As a writer, I find myself perpetually at odds with the adage: write what you know. Too often it is taken literally, as an injunction to approach only subject matter that comes from one’s own experience. Frequently, this results in fiction that is simply veiled autobiography. Unless the life is [...]
Why I Write: Jessie Seigel
by Jessie Seigel, AIW Board Member
Why do I write? Today, I write because characters keep roaming through my head—characters with pasts and futures that I must put down on paper or no one but me will know they exist, and they’ll fade away. Last year, or the year before, the driving motivation was often a [...]
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